Re: Re: insight from our visit to the chiropractor

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All of this talk of raw food gets me hungry! I was on the Hallalujah Diet for a year. It got my health back. I hope all of you ladies are able to switch yourself and your lil ones to raw. I really feel that it could help.Susie ~littlelief wrote: That's great news, Bonnie! - and so reassuring for you to hear that you've been on the right path! I hope this new chiropractor can continue to help you and your daughter get through the healing - I'll keep my fingers crossed that the insurance doesn't alter that for you

again! Did you mention the mercury testing you did? Does he suggest chelation? (I think you mentioned maybe trying some natural chelators - have you started?) I have also been thinking more and more about a raw diet for the whole family, including sprouting! I think it is an excellent idea and I wish I could get motivated to at least incorporate more raw foods into our diet. I just have a hard time keeping enough fresh fruits/veggies in the house with the amount we already eat. I like to use organic as much as possible without going broke and it's sometimes so hard to find affordable, good quality fresh organic produce that I often get frozen organic vegetables. I've been considering joining a CSA farm (community supported agriculture) but have been hesitant because most ask for a year's financial commitment up front and I don't know if I would utilize all the produce as productively as I should so I don't

want to waste the food or the money. I don't know though, maybe it would help me 'commit' to using it all & having more of a raw diet....???? Thanks for sharing the insights from this visit - keep us updated on any new developments! best, > > We went to see a new chiropractor...haven't been to our old one for a while > because of insurance changes...and he was very thrilled with everything > we've been doing. He said, "You're doing all the right things. Who's helping > you figure all this out?" I said, "Um...it's mostly the moms on the Yahoo > Miralax list!" > > Anyway...he thinks that our daughter's sensory integration problems have to > be solved before the constipation will clear. He thinks that

the stress from > living with sensory problems is overloading her sympathetic and > parasympathetic nervous systems. He also thinks that some stuff we've tried > that didn't help, like the gf/cf diet, may not have helped because other > factors weren't in place yet, and that a lot of the things we've tried that > looked like they weren't helping actually are helping, but that when you're > working on healing the nervous system, the body will prioritize brain > healing before GI healing, so that if we give it some time, and keep doing > what we're doing, we should eventually see GI improvement too. We definitely > are seeing sensory improvement, I just had not been viewing that as the > primary issue. I always felt the constipation affected her quality of life > more than the sensory problems, which we viewed as mild. So I'm really > pleased to have all this

explained to me...I sort of feel like what we're > doing is like peeling away the layers of an onion. We have to peel away all > these toxicities one by one (while also trying to add back in nutrients one > by one), and we don't seem to see improvement, but eventually I feel that > we'll finally get to the last layer. And, I think that even though she's > still constipated, maybe the fact that she's been so darn healthy all fall > is a sign that her GI tract is healing in ways that we just can't see, yet. > > It is such a slow journey, though. This chiropractor also cautioned me that > it can take years to clear mercury from kids' systems. Sigh. > > In the meantime, I'm thinking of going back to the GF/CF diet because I'm > thinking it may, like some of these other things, have been helping her in > unseen ways, even if we couldn't actually SEE

how it was helping her before. > On the other hand, I'm also thinking about trying to gradually shift her > onto a more raw foods diet (which would be mostly GF/CF anyway, but might > include some sprouted grains that still would have gluten in them--since she > doesn't have celiac disease, I'm not sure that she'd need to be as strictly > GF as celiacs are.) I'm shifting to more and more raw foods myself. > Unfortunately it's easier to switch me than her...I'm a lot more open to > trying new things than she is. It would have to be a VERY gradual shift! And > the frustrating truth is, if a dietary change is helping her in unseen ways, > and it's a rough diet to implement, like both GF and raw foods diets are, > than we're likely to backslide, because it will seem like we're doing all > this for nothing (it will especially look that way to my skeptical

husband). > > > Sigh. Oh well. At least we're making progress, however incrementally... > > Bonnie > Susie~ Please visit Trisha's site and feel free to pass it on: Busy Hands ~ Pencil Portraits and Other Handmade Gifts

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